2023 Garmin Health Summit celebrates smartwatch-enabled digital health solutions
Tuesday, November 21, 2023
Fifth annual event recognizes innovative wellness solutions, highlights Polaris Dawn's smartwatch research collaboration and debuts powerful new biometrics exclusively for Garmin Health customers
OLATHE, Kan., Nov. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Garmin Health, a leading provider of digital health solutions that leverage the data and insights of the Garmin (NYSE: GRMN) product ecosystem, today announced the winners of the 2023 Garmin Health Awards presented at the fifth annual Garmin Health Summit held in Singapore. The event recognizes cutting-edge health care and wellness solutions that help improve outcomes for businesses, patients and population health.
"We are proud to recognize this year's extremely impressive health and wellness solutions. It's truly inspiring and motivating to see such a high level of innovation. On behalf of everyone at Garmin, congratulations to all the winners and to all who participated in the Garmin Health Awards." -- Jörn Watzke, Garmin Health Senior Director of Global B2B Sales
The following Garmin Health Awards winners were chosen based on their solution's benefit, scalability, uniqueness, innovation and successful integration of Garmin wearables:
Category: Health Care & Research
Winner: Blue Room Biometrics powered by Real Response Pty. Ltd., Australia
-- BlueRoom Biometrics integrates live data from a Garmin smartwatches and
fitness trackers into virtual and mixed reality training experiences.
Utilizing the Garmin Health SDK, the system provides a facilitator with
real-time data and stress measurements powered by HRV (Heart Rate
Variability) that can be used to customize the training experience for
each trainee. In addition, an AI engine has been developed to automate
this process and make training safer and more effectiveReal Response has
revolutionised emergency training in Australia. Initially offering
traditional first aid courses, the company evolved into a leader in
immersive, simulation-enhanced training. With the introduction of
BlueRoom, Real Response has expanded into mixed reality setting new
standards in hands-on, realistic experiences.
Category: Insurance & Employee Health
Winner: Sleep Advice Technologies Srl, Italy
-- Sleep Advice Technologies developed PREDICTS, a family of patented
algorithms designed to predict sleepiness of the subject. Providing
real-time analysis of subject fatigue based upon a model of the
autonomous nervous system, PREDICTS generates an alarm about the
soon-to-happen transition from awake to drowsy state to predict the
sleep onset well before a subject may lose control of their activities.
Available for after-market and OEM applications, the program can be run
with wearable sensors and contact sensors.In-depth validation tests that
simulate driving conditions with sleep-deprived drivers have
successfully been completed. It runs on a fleet of heavy duty trucks
since January 2023. Sleep Advice Technologies is an innovative start-up,
created on July 2018 and established in Turin (Italy). The company takes
full advantage of the synergic input of sleep expert medical doctors,
senior managers in the field of automotive and semiconductors
technologies, as well as faculty and researchers come from one of the
leading technical universities in Italy.
Category: Fitness & Wellness
Winner: Humanoo, Germany
-- Humanoo is a global health & wellbeing platform that supports businesses
and insurers with a wide range of services to drive health awareness
among employees & policyholders. Humanoo provides in-house-produced
content, gamification solutions with challenges and rewards and a
variety of health services such as 1-to-1 coaching and employee
assistance programs. Humanoo helps manage all health offerings from one
platform with holistic health engagement, progress reports and
meaningful insights. Humanoo works with 750+ corporate clients, and 21
leading European insurers. Headquartered in Berlin, Humanoo is a leading
European Corporate & Policyholder wellbeing technology company. Already
helping more than 750 organizations, from leading insurances to
household brands, all the way to public administration, Humanoo is
rooted in the belief that wellbeing must be deployed holistically, and
at scale, to enable sustainable, measurable outcomes for clients &
users.
How the winners captured the award
Finalists for the Most Innovative Solutions Award presented a 3-minute pitch video during the Garmin Health Summit and responded to questions from a four-person panel that included experts from each award category as well as a Garmin Health representative. Winners will receive Garmin wearables worth an estimated total of $10,000.
Keynote highlights spaceflight research collaboration
Mathias Basner, MD, PhD, MScEpi, a Professor and Director of the Behavioral Regulation and Health Section in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, presented the event keynote titled "Commercial Spaceflight: Unobtrusive Crew Health Monitoring in an Extreme Environment."
Basner provided an in-depth overview of one of the most high-profile Garmin Health research collaborations to date--the Polaris Dawn mission. During the five-day spaceflight, crew members will wear Garmin f?nix(®) 7 smartwatches, allowing researchers to monitor 24/7 biometrics such as heart rate(1 )(and HRV status), Pulse Ox(2), Body Battery((TM)) and more.
Enhanced BBI benefits
The Garmin Health team announced the availability of enhanced Beat to Beat Interval (BBI) measurements at the 2023 event. The powerful tool uses Garmin smartwatch sensor technology to collect raw heart rate variability (HRV) data and makes the series of measurements available exclusively to Garmin Health customers via the Garmin Health Standard SDK and Garmin Health API. For more information, visit the Garmin Health Developer page.
"One of the variables that make Garmin Health an attractive business solution for other companies is its dedication and access to advanced data and analytics, specifically heart rate variability (HRV) and beat-to-beat intervals (BBI). We believe BBI is an important biometric that can help researchers and insurers better understand a user's overall health and wellness." -- Scott Burgett, Senior Director of Garmin Health Engineering
With impressive battery life and highly accurate biosensor data, Garmin smartwatches are at the forefront of driving rapid change in digital health and digital therapeutic industries. Plus, Garmin's robust battery life on its watches can last up to at least a week and up to several weeks without a charge--depending on the exact smartwatch. Additionally, the watches possess flexible interfaces to make accurate biosensor data available to its collaboration cohorts.
The invitation-only Garmin Health Summit provides two days of valuable networking and learning opportunities, with expert sessions that educate and inform attendees about a range of topics such as the Garmin Health Connected Ecosystem, Health Care, Research, Insurance, Fitness and Employee Health Benefits--all while connecting with peers and respected industry leaders. For more information, visit the Garmin Health Summit page.
About Garmin Health
Garmin Health provides custom enterprise business solutions that leverage Garmin's extensive wearable portfolio and high-quality sensor data for applications in the corporate wellness, population health, and patient monitoring markets. The Garmin Health API allows third parties to ask customers to share their data in accordance with their specific privacy policies. As part of a global company that designs, manufactures and ships products worldwide, Garmin Health supports its customers' commerce and logistics needs, allowing enterprises to scale with a single, trusted provider. For more information, email our Garmin Health team, connect with us on LinkedIn, or visit us online at garmin.com/health.
(1 Activity tracking and fitness metric accuracy
)(2 This is not a medical device and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or monitoring of any medical condition; see )(Garmin.com/ataccuracy)(. Pulse Ox not available in all countries.)
About Garmin International, Inc. Garmin International, Inc. is a subsidiary of Garmin Ltd. (NYSE: GRMN). Garmin Ltd. is incorporated in Switzerland, and its principal subsidiaries are located in the United States, Taiwan and the United Kingdom. Garmin and fénix are registered trademarks.
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Notice on Forward-Looking Statements:
This release includes forward-looking statements regarding Garmin Ltd. and its business. Such statements are based on management's current expectations.? The forward-looking events and circumstances discussed in this release may not occur and actual results could differ materially as a result of known and unknown risk factors and uncertainties affecting Garmin, including, but not limited to, the risk factors listed in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022, filed by Garmin with the Securities and Exchange Commission (Commission file number 0-31983).? A copy of such Form 10-K is available at https://www.garmin.com/en-US/company/investors/earnings/. No forward-looking statement can be guaranteed.? Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which they are made and Garmin undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.
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